Željko Ivanek is a Slovenian-American actor who portrays Mile Jurkovic in AMC's The Walking Dead: Dead City.
Biography
Ivanek was born in Ljubljana, PR Slovenia, FPR Yugoslavia, to the family of Ferdo Ivanek, originally from Varaždin, Croatia, and Vojka nee Šimić. In 1960, Željko, his mother and younger brother, Ivan, immigrated to Palo Alto, California, where his father was working as a research assistant at the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. His mother also worked at Stanford University as a project manager.
After a two-year stay, in 1962, the family moved back to Slovenia for five years and then returned to Palo Alto in 1967. Having performed in numerous community theater plays in the San Francisco Bay Area, he graduated from Ellwood P. Cubberley High School in Palo Alto in 1975. Ivanek graduated from Yale University majoring in theater in 1978 and attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art afterward.
Other Works
- The Edge of Night
- Homicide: Life on the Street
- 24
- Oz
- Law & Order
- Heroes
- Big Love
- Damages
- The Event
- The Mob Doctor
- Revolution
- Banshee Origins
- Madam Secretary
- Now and Then
- Death by Lightning
Trivia
- He shares a birthday with Emily Kinney (Beth Greene).